Bakery:
Furano Patisserie Tronc
Address:
1-23 Saiwaicho, Furano, Hokkaido
Website:
http://furano-tronc.com/shop/
Style:
Japanese
Price:
$$$
A few streets away from Furano's major retail areas, there's the small, discreet Tronc, a chic patisserie with a decidedly wooden theme going on. Appropriately enough, their signature item is their woodcut cookies, though I don't actually remember seeing them in store. Nonetheless, the selection is small and the majority of products are small creamy cake slices and puddings. There are also some individually packaged treats like adorable, cookie-sized soft cakes and similarly packaged doughnuts - which seemed to be
the products of the moment in more than just this bakery. Prices are above average.
I decided to see what this plastic-wrapped mini baked doughnut hype was all about. I grabbed the green tea (189 yen). Really, these are doughnuts in shape only, since the dough is that of a coffee/pound cake. However, I made my own Japanese baked doughnuts and I really enjoyed them, so this alone isn't a bad thing. But... I think the one amazing thing people like about a doughnut - at least a good doughnut - is its freshness. The whole sealed bag and silica pouch instantly gives it a different feel. There's no slightly crusty outside, the kind you get on a freshly baked cake, so it's soft, homogeneous. The lack of a glaze or any sort of topping further accentuated this. While the taste was fairly good (more pronounced matcha flavour would have been nice though), the end result was rather... boring.
Rating: **1/2
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